Padre Pio Calendar 2023

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Pilgrimage Ceremonies close for the evening. We will conclude with Night Prayer to Padre Pio – by a Capuchin Friar Referring to that day’s Gospel (Matthew 11:25-30) at Padre Pio’s canonization Mass in 2002, Saint John Paul II said: “The Gospel image of ‘yoke’ evokes the many trials that the humble Capuchin of San Giovanni Rotondo endured. Today we contemplate in him how sweet is the ‘yoke’ of Christ and indeed how light the burdens are whenever someone carries these with faithful love. The life and mission of Padre Pio testify that difficulties and sorrows, if accepted with love, transform themselves into a privileged journey of holiness, which opens the person toward a greater good, known only to the Lord.” We also resemble the bowed-down woman; wholly taken up with earthy concerns, too often we are “unable to look upward”; but on this Christian Sabbath, Christ seeks “to free us from the bonds of Satan” and make us spiritually “erect.” Thus the Gospel insinuates the workings of grace in today’s holy Sacrifice. Wednesday– Good and Gracious God, today as we pray for the souls of the faithful departed, we remember the comforting words of Jesus: “ Come, you blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the creation of the world”. As You, Lord, so greatly desire the hearts and souls of the created in Your image and likeness, please now call them to Yourself, and welcome them into Your Kingdom, as they welcomed You here on earth in the poor, the naked, the hungry, the thirsty and the imprisoned. We make our prayer in the name of Christ our Lord. Amen. Located in the Annex Room off St. John’s Welcome Centre. The Padre Pio Religious Gift Shop will be available throughout the day, until 6.00pm. Blessings with the Padre Pio Glove will also take place in this location between the hours of 10.00am and 1.00pm by visiting and resident Capuchin Friars. Blessings will also be available after the Pilgrimage Mass.

a b De Sousa, Matthew (20 September 2022). "Padre Pio Review: Movie on mystic misses the mark". The Catholic Weekly. One clear example is when the devil appears to Pio as a naked woman in an extremely graphic and distasteful scene that sees her try to seduce Pio while performing a lewd act. On Jan. 22, 1903, Francesco donned the Franciscan habit for the first time. He took the new name Pio, a modernized Italian form of “Pius,” in honor of Pope St. Pius V. He made his solemn vows four years later, and received priestly ordination in the summer of 1910. Shortly after, he first received the Stigmata – Christ’s wounds, present in his own flesh. The Angel Gabriel, having lately announced to Mary the destiny that awaited her, also told her that her kinswoman Elizabeth was with child. The Virgin Mary, eager to share in Elizabeth's happiness and to confide that she too would bear a child, traveled down the dusty road from Nazareth. On Mary's arrival, she was amazed when Elizabeth, having foreseen knowledge, greeted her as "mother of my Lord." Elizabeth's salutation was in these words: "Blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb. And how have I deserved that the mother of my Lord should come to me? For behold, the moment that the sound of thy greeting came to my ears, the babe in my womb leapt for joy. And blessed is she who has believed, because the things promised her by the Lord shall be accomplished." Mauro, J.P. (14 January 2022). "Shia LaBeouf takes pilgrimage with Franciscans for Padre Pio biopic". Aleteia . Retrieved 30 May 2022. How Shia LaBeouf Immersed Himself in Christ While Filming Padre Pio: "I Found My Way" ". ChurchPOP Editor. 25 May 2023 . Retrieved 23 June 2023– via YouTube.

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Padre Pio of Pietrelcina , intercede for us and the Holy Souls in Purgatory for whom we pray, that they may have eternal rest, and that we may live life in God’s Will and enter Life Eternal at the end of our journey. During this time, the Centre will be open for people to come and go as they wish, and to speak with Volunteers and Capuchin Friars from the National At the age of 15, Francesco joined the Capuchins and took the name of Pio. He was ordained in 1910 and was drafted during World War I. After he was discovered to have tuberculosis, he was discharged. In 1917, he was assigned to the friary in San Giovanni Rotondo, 75 miles from the city of Bari on the Adriatic. Pio was looking at all of this and saying, ‘I want to take this all upon myself as a suffering servant to help them.’ He didn’t know that the stigmata will be the purpose to help these people out. But it ended up being just that. The stigmata didn’t just happen on its own, in other words,” he said. "Padre Pio," starring Shia LaBeouf, airs in theaters June 2, 2023. Credit: Gravitas Ventures. Credit: Gravitas Ventures Demonic harassment Padre Pio Religious Gift Shop and Information Hub will be available throughout the day, until 9.00pm that evening. The Padre Pio Shop will be closed during the schedule Guided

Join Us in Celebrating Padre Pio’s Special Anniversary Year in a Unique and Very Special Way! A Year To Celebrate – 2023 Today is the Memorial of St. Pius of Pietrelcina (1887-1968), more popularly known as Padre Pio was born in 1887 in the small Italian village of Pietrelcina. He joined the Capuchin Friars at the age of sixteen and was ordained a priest seven years later. For fifty years at the monastery of San Giovanni Rotundo he was a much sought after spiritual advisor, confessor, and intercessor whose life was devoted to the Eucharist and prayer. Yet despite such notoriety, he would often say, "I only want to be a poor friar who prays." Grobar, Matt (28 March 2023). "Shia LaBeouf Drama 'Padre Pio' From Abel Ferrara Sets Gravitas Ventures Release". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved 18 April 2023. Ferrara told CNA that the scene was taken out of Padre Pio’s private letters to his spiritual director. Rodriguez added that demons would appear in Pio’s room as naked women to harass him.It is Ember Saturday of the Autumn or September Embertide. The September Ember Days fall after the third Sunday of September near the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross (September 14), and are days of thanksgiving for the completed harvest of fruits and grapes and historically commemorated as a "wine-press feast." But these Ember Days are also days of penance and atonement since the traditional liturgy connected them with the Jewish celebration of the New Year and Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur. The Stational churches were part of the quarterly Ember Days, with Ember Saturdays always being the Station with San Pietro in Vaticano (St. Peter's in the Vatican). He is always close to you, He rules and protects and sustains you, so that your will may not be overcome …

In 1956 he founded the House for the Relief of Suffering, a hospital that serves 60,000 a year. Padre Pio died on September 23, 1968 at age 81. On September 20, 1918, as he was making his thanksgiving after Mass, Padre Pio had a vision of Jesus. When the vision ended, he had the stigmata in his hands, feet, and side.

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Known for patient suffering, fervent prayer, and compassionate spiritual guidance, Padre Pio also lent his efforts to the establishment of a major hospital, the “Home to Relieve Suffering.” According to the Gospel, Elizabeth had lived a blameless life with her husband in one of the hill-towns of Judea. Having reached an advanced age with her prayers for a son unanswered, she thought that her barrenness was a reproach. One day, while Zachary was serving in the temple, the Angel Gabriel appeared at the right of the altar, and announced that a son would be born to Elizabeth. It was in the sixth month of her pregnancy that the Virgin Mary came to visit her - a touching and beautiful scene pictured by many great artists. Amen, I say to you, what you did for one of these my least brothers (and sisters) you did for me. (Matthew 25: 31-46)

Friday – Most high, all powerful, all good God, Your humble servant, St. Francis of Assisi, when considering his own death, spoke of her as “Sister Death, from whom no one can escape”. In faith we believe that no one would wish to escape the good things that you have prepared for those who have loved You! So today we pray that Sister Death may embrace the souls of our, family, friends, benefactors, even those we do not love as we ought, and those who have no one to remember them, whom You have called, and lead them to that new creation where you live forever and ever. Amen. Often Depicted As: elderly woman holding the infant John the Baptist; pregnant woman with the Virgin Mary; in the company of Saint Zachary c) Application. God appeals directly to my heart in the Gospel. The two parables, one in word and one in sign, should move me deeply. I am that barren fig tree. The infinitely just God is the landlord, our Savior the pleading caretaker. If God should summon me to His judgement seat today (the command to destroy the tree), would there be any “fruit”? To what extent would I resemble the barren fig tree? Why does it occupy ground? But Christ intercedes, says a kindly word in my behalf: “Perhaps there will be some return—next crop! If not, it can then be cut down.” The coming quarter-year mark must mark a change, genuine improvement. It’s easy to think that because he was holy, that he received the stigma automatically. No,” Rodriguez said. The First World War and the social political turmoil in San Giovanni Rotondo were the context in which the saint received the stigmata, he said.This is a Guided Prayer Session on the theme: “Come and Encounter Jesus in the Divine Mercy with our Beloved Padre Pio” featuring Music, Reflections and Readings from the Diary of St.Faustina, as we journey with Jesus and Padre Pio in the Divine Mercy, Padre Pio’s Favourite Prayer. Ramachandran, Naman (2 September 2022). "Shia LaBeouf Says Venice Movie 'Padre Pio' 'Saved My Life' ". Variety.